Sick or Infested Zoa's

[captnphil]

Hello Everyone!
I bought this Rock of Zoa's about a week ago. (cheap)
So i freshwater dipped it 2-3 min.
2 days later i did a 30min dip, saltwater, lugol's and FWE double dose.
didnt kill anything exept pods

Anyway i notice more and more heads open up.. but!
Some seems to be bleaching(its on the floor now) others seems to be head bubble, lots closed...
theres is some white little dots moving around!
i tought it might be Pox but after seein and comparing i doubt it is.
Might still be nudi's, and i will re-dip in FWE/Iodine
Didnt find or see any spider.
they dont seem to be missing anything around the polyps nor bytes on the stem.
Water params all 0's, (basic nitrate and phos since i got some algae)
sal at 25, got t5ho actinics + 250MH 10k.

maybey the'll get around but i prefer more opinions!

on the pics i circled the white moving dots.
thx
Phil

 

[captnphil]

I am just asking this because
i am new to saltwater (2months)
and i think i have done everything i was suposed to.
I read so many horror story and those are my 1st zoa's
more head seems to be opening, some of them look greyish, wrinkled...
duno i guess time will tell if all is fine...

No one on the moving white dots? (are they the same micro life we see on glass?) they seem to be enjoying my zoa and nothing else...

 

[Lytehouse]

To be able to tell much, would need a closer pic of the white dots.

 

[CNGH]

+1 for closer pic.

they don't look unhealthy. if they're a new acquisition, sometimes it takes days for it to fully acclimate and open up all the way. plus if you've been taking it out and moving it around repeatedly, that's not going to speed up their acclimation.

as for the white dots, are they slightly larger than a period? i.e. --> "."? i think they may be tiny crustaceans. i don't think they eat the zoas, but their crawling on them will irritate them. i've seen them before crawling/scurrying along with closed polyps, but i didn't notice any damage to the polyp after it re-opened.

hth a bit...

 

[Keiki Moana]

yea- they don't look bad to me...I've stopped FW dipping...too stressful. I get tons of organisms off by using a 50 ml syringe and blasting away. Moving little dots might be little copepods like you see on the glass...especially if you have no predators to eat them (like a Mandarin, etc.)...can you pull out the rock and look under a magnifying glass to look for nudis?

 

[HerbanShaman]

I have similar dots, but I don't notice them moving; they seem to be hurting my zoas and palies in a similar manner. I was blaming the amphipods that seem to hang out around the damage, thinking it was thier eggs. How big are nudibranches (mm)? When I searched around they seemed bigger than dots.

 

[geoxman]

I've stopped FW dipping...too stressful

That is a big mistake IMHO

The dots appear to be sand and they might just be getting over the FW dip. FWIW the next time you dip use tap, tincture and please make sure the polyps are closed. good luck

 

[VITARTE]

Aren't white dots on zoas, zoa pox?
I don't think they're good.